THIRTY YEARS OF BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA

performances): “I took Romeo’s trousers in too much and had to make a new pair in the bedroom of a dreadful hotel where the owner was like Basil Fawlty – I just made them in time for the dress rehearsal although he had to have a pin in them even then!”

Other venues began to supplement our core from time to time. In 2006 we took Martín y Soler’s La capricciosa corretta (which we naughtily subtitled The Taming of the Shrew, despite its lack of Shakespearian context) to the theatre at Headington School, and the following year (our busiest on record) we revived L’infedeltà delusa for the Wantage Concert